Thursday, November 25, 2010

It's a fact... Facebook has beaten Google as the most poular web site on the planet. With over half a billion users logging in to their Facebook accounts every day to check what their friends have to share, or say, it's just insane to not tap into this incredible market to promote your business.

The best way to go is to create a Facebook "Fan Page". You can setup a fan page in minutes, and add fans to it by inviting your friends, JV-partners, subscribers and customers, so they will know when you have something to share or announce.

Once you have a fan page, you can setup a landing page (where people can get something for free if they "like" your page, just like a squeeze page), and show this page as your home page to new visitors.

It only takes a simple click on the "Like" button, and they will be getting all your updates in their newsfeed whenever you post something to your fan page.

It works like magic... try that with a simple email message ;-)

Check out this video on how to create a squeeze page on your Facebook page (You may want to enlarge the video for better viewing it by clicking the "Full Screen" button in the user bar):

There's a guy who earns $500 every day with a Facebook Fan Page. He wrote a report about it. You can now get it for free.

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Blogging is HOT. Thousands of blogs, on every possible niche or hobby, are created every day by all kinds of people with different interests.

Blogs have become so popular because they are free to create. Blogger and Wordpress blogs are also easy to setup, and they get listed high in Google.

Some people blog for the pure pleasure of blogging about something they are passionate about.

Some people blog with the goal of earning money.

It's really easy to turn your blog into a profit generating tool, and once your blog gets some decent traffic, you will have to refuse advertisers who want to put their ads on your blog.

Now, there are a number of ways you can monetize your blog, and I could write a long article about it...

...but instead I have written a special -and free- report on the subject, called; "Building Your First Profitable Blog". It contains step-by step info on how to turn your blog into a real cash spitting machine.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Every marketer who sells a downloadable product online (be it an Ebook, or software program), should be aware of the fact that their download -or "Thank-You"- page, can be found by entering specific terms via Google, or any other search engine.

That's why you need to protect your download pages.

To do this, you can add some simple meta tags to your page(s), like this:

When you sell a .PDF file, you should also "zip" it, because the search engines can read .PDF files. You can use a free copy of jZip to do that.

Another method to prevent people from stealing your product is by adding an index.htm file in your download folder. If you don't add an index page, the folder will be open, and anyone can get your goods.

You can also use an Ebook compiler program that includes complete security, like Ebook Starter. You can download a free trial from the web site to see how it can work for you.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Do you know how to choose a product from the Clickbank market place that you know will be profitable?

When it comes to choosing and promoting Clickbank products it is a good idea to have a solid criteria that you can use to decide if the product is going to be profitable and worth your time and effort.

A few of the key things you should look at are Gravity score, competition, the salesletter, the commission rate and the price of the actual product.

In this first lesson let's talk about the Clickbank gravity score and how it will help you choose the right products to promote.

What exactly is Clickbank gravity? This is a question that continues baffle many affiliates.

According to Clickbank the gravity score is:

The number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the vendor's products. This is a weighted sum and not an actual total. For each affiliate paid in the last eight weeks they add an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total. The more recent the last referral, the higher the value added.

It doesn't actually have anything to do with the total amount of sales that have been made for a particular product.

In layman terms a high gravity score indicates that affiliate marketers are earning plenty of commissions on sales from the product.

A low gravity indicates that there haven't been many sales for the product at all.

So as you can see the actual gravity of a product is an important indicator of how successful a product is selling.

Here is a quick example of how you can interpret the gravity score. Let's say for instance that the product has a score of 447, that means that 447 affiliates have made a sale for that product within the last eight weeks.

Keep in mind that this doesn't reflect the amount of sales made by each affiliate. It could be that 447 affiliates made one sale each or that three affiliates made 149 sales each. There is really no way to tell for sure. But it can lead you to the conclusion that a high gravity score oftenmeans more competitors.

It is important to keep in mind that it will be more difficult to make money from a product that has a large number of affiliates promoting it.

A good rule of thumb is to aim for products that have a referral percentage below 65%. This means you will have less competition.

If you don't mind the competition it is perfectly OK to promote products with a higher gravity score. Simply because these products have been proven to be successful sellers and you can be sure that there is a market for them.

Then again, there are lots of extremely valuable products on Clickbank that have a far lower gravity score with less competition. Of course the choice is completely up to you, but I recommend that you keep your product choices limited to ones with a gravity of 20 or higher.

Because most products below that just won't make any money for you no matter how much you promote them.

After you have found several products that meet your criteria based on the gravity score you can begin looking at the other variables like evaluating the sales letter, cost and commissions.

By understanding how the Clickbank gravity score works you can be more confident that you are picking the most profitable products to promote.